September 14th, 2021
- drafting barn-raising announcement for Qrono
- Announcing the first virtual barn-raising!
October 9th all day (9am-midnight pacific)
Featuring a bookings platform by @Prigoose & @drewface. I'm excited to have them be the first barn-raising, for a few reasons, which I'll share in this thread.
twitter.com/drewface/status/1435518784752832515 - One is that the main difference between barn-raisings and hackathons is that by default nothing ongoing happens after a hackathon. Sometimes a project gets legs anyway, but it's not the default.
And since Priya & Andrew are already committed to this business, it's gonna happen! - add something here about precisely what stage they're at
- 2 beta customers
- with a product (that one of the customers is using in production!)
- I feel this will do something really good for the momentum of the barn-raisings as well. We'll definitely do barn-raisings for people less far along, but it feels important to make it clear that these one day events are for realizing something long-term.
- Another reason I'm stoked to have them go first is that there's a ton of different stuff to do:
• clever sales & marketing strategy
• redesign logo, website elements, name
• open-sourcing some of their work
• #and_more - Reason 3: Their product is a platform/API, so we can also have people hacking *using* the platform, in parallel!
What Stripe is for payments, they are that for bookings.
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1435659652365262848 - Every barn-raising is also gonna involve some meta work, so totally come if you're interested in barn-raising the process of barn-raisings! This is the first event, so we're setting precedent and building systems for the future. There will be exciting meta-work to be done documenting, building, and improving the process!